Cosmic star-formation history

P Madau, M Dickinson - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Over the past two decades, an avalanche of new data from multiwavelength imaging and
spectroscopic surveys has revolutionized our view of galaxy formation and evolution. Here …

What drives the growth of black holes?

DM Alexander, RC Hickox - New Astronomy Reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
Massive black holes (BHs) are at once exotic and yet ubiquitous, residing at the centers of
massive galaxies in the local Universe. Recent years have seen remarkable advances in …

CANDELS: the cosmic assembly near-infrared deep extragalactic legacy survey

NA Grogin, DD Kocevski, SM Faber… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey
(CANDELS) is designed to document the first third of galactic evolution, over the …

The ATLAS3D Project – XXX. Star formation histories and stellar population scaling relations of early-type galaxies

RM McDermid, K Alatalo, L Blitz… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We present the stellar population content of early-type galaxies from the ATLAS3D survey.
Using spectra integrated within apertures covering up to one effective radius, we apply two …

The two phases of galaxy formation

L Oser, JP Ostriker, T Naab… - The Astrophysical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Cosmological simulations of galaxy formation appear to show a" two-phase" character with a
rapid early phase at z≳ 2 during which" in situ" stars are formed within the galaxy from …

FIREbox: simulating galaxies at high dynamic range in a cosmological volume

R Feldmann, E Quataert… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We introduce a suite of cosmological volume simulations to study the evolution of galaxies
as part of the Feedback in Realistic Environments project. FIREbox, the principal simulation …

Star formation in AEGIS field galaxies since z= 1.1: the dominance of gradually declining star formation, and the main sequence of star-forming galaxies

KG Noeske, BJ Weiner, SM Faber… - The Astrophysical …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
We analyze star formation (SF) as a function of stellar mass (M*) and redshift z in the All-
Wavelength Extended Groth Strip International Survey. For 2905 field galaxies, complete to …

Breaking the hierarchy of galaxy formation

RG Bower, AJ Benson, R Malbon… - Monthly Notices of …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Recent observations of the distant Universe suggest that much of the stellar mass of bright
galaxies was already in place at z> 1. This presents a challenge for models of galaxy …

Heating hot atmospheres with active galactic nuclei

BR McNamara, PEJ Nulsen - Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys., 2007 - annualreviews.org
High resolution X-ray spectroscopy of the hot gas in galaxy clusters has shown that the gas
is not cooling to low temperatures at the predicted rates of hundreds to thousands of solar …

On the normalization of the cosmic star formation history

AM Hopkins, JF Beacom - The Astrophysical Journal, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
Strong constraints on the cosmic star formation history (SFH) have recently been established
using ultraviolet and far-infrared measurements, refining the results of numerous …